Choosing the USB stick

Requirements for the USB stick:

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• 8 GB or more
• FAT32 formatted

Steps to boot the Appliance from a USB stick

No matter which OS you wish to install on the appliance, follow these steps in order to boot from the USB stick:

1. Plugin the USB stick
2. Hold F11 during boot to reach the Boot-Options menu
3. Choose the USB stick, for example "General USB Flash DIsk" (do not choose UEFI)
   

Installation of Windows 10 on the Appliance

Creation of the USB stick for windows 10 

Microsoft offers a tool (Media Creation Tool) in order to install Windows 10 on a PC/server. The tool can be downloaded from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

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Once the process is done, click on "Finish". You can now plug the USB key into your appliance. See below for "installing OS on the appliance".

Windows BIOS settings

If your appliance gets stuck after rebooting, please check the bios setup. To do so, press F11 after starting the device and click on "Enter setup" in the screen below:

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5.       Chipset →  DVMT Total Gfx Mem = 128MB

Installation of Windows 10 on the beroNet Appliance

Once the USB stick is ready, plug it into the Appliance. You should also connect a monitor and a keyboard to it. When you turn the Appliance on, the installation of Windows should proceed automatically. Choose language and keyboard layout.

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Once it is finished, the Appliance will reboot. After rebooting, it will try to boot from the USB stick again. In order to prevent Windows from being installed once more, unplug the USB stick and let the appliance boot from the SSD.

Drivers for windows

Once Windows is ready, we advise you to install a few drivers designed for beroNet hardware.

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BNTA21-model: https://www.asrock.com/ipc/overview.asp?Model=IMB-155#osW8164

BNTA22-model: https://www.asrock.com/ipc/overview.asp?Model=IMB-155#osW8164

Installation of another OS 

Once you have formatted your USB stick, download the program "tuxboot" here.

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If you have issues using tuxboot, you can also use "Win32 disk Imager" available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

If your Appliance has an integrated Gateway

We recommend the use of a Windows network bridge. To use the Network Brigde under Windows based Systems (Windows SBS Versions don't seem to support Network Bridging) open "network connections" Window. As already seen in the chapter IP-Forwarding, you will see two Network controllers. Your standard Host Network Controller ("Local Area Network Connection 1") and the beroFix Network Controller ("Local Area Network Connection 2"). To create the Network Bridge please select both connections and click the right mouse button. The following context menu will appear:

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As you might notice the network controllers don't have IP Address's any more. You can only assign an IP-Address to the bridge controller. By default the bridge is in DHCP mode. If you please mark the bridge, click the right mouse button, choose "Preferences" and configure an IP-Address. At that moment the network bridge is reachable throughout the LAN and you can therefore reach the beroFix beroNet Gateway web-interface. For example:
Let's assume your LAN is 172.20.0.0/255.255.0.0, your bridge got an IP 172.20.5.194 and you configured beroFix beroNet Gateway internal IP address to 172.20.70.11. Through the configured bridge, the beroFix beroNet device is reachable from the whole network now, if your firewall is not blocking it!